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Authorities are well into their investigation of Costa Concordia captain Franchesco Schettino, and thanks to some leaks to the Italian press, it seems he and his crew are being examined for a little bit of everything, including drugs, prostitution, and a previous crash.
The owners of the Costa Concordia swear that all 1,000 passengers on one of its other ships, Costa Allegra, are fine even though the boat had a fire is now adrift in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
The official death toll of the Costa Concordia crash rose to 21 after salvage workers found four more bodies in the wrecked ship, a month and a week after it went down January 14.
Traces of cocaine were found on Costa Concordia cruise ship Captain Francesco Schettino's hair. Not in the hair, but on the hair.
In what must've been a wrenching decision, Italian rescue officials called off their search for missing passengers of the partially submerged Costa Concordia Tuesday, citing dangerous conditions to the rescuers.
After his silly excuse for abandoning ship, it's becoming impossible to trust what Captain Francesco Schettino says. So, we're finding it a bit difficult to accept the new transcripts of Schettino blaming an unnamed and unyielding manager for sailing too close to shore.
The discovery of two more bodies in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia today brings the death toll to 15 and brings the missing count to 17--numbers that might not mean much considering there are reports now that there may have been several unregistered passengers on board.
Two more victims of the doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia were discovered by divers over the weekend, both women, bringing the total number of casualties to 13.
Costa Cruises, the company which owns the now-shipwrecked Costa Concordia, is in the process of offering full refunds to surviving passengers, but that won't stop the lawsuits from being filed or the amateur videos from revealing that the crew might not have handle the accident in the best way possible.
The handling of the Costa Concordia wreck was botched from the very start, it seems, as a newly leaked recording shows somebody on the ship reporting its collision with a rock as merely a blackout.
If you're looking for a bellwether in the Costa Concordia wreck's rescue efforts, just pay attention to how loud and how often officials talk about emptying out the 2,300 tons of fuel the ship is holding.
The captain of that Italian cruise ship that ran aground over the weekend is in serious trouble, and while he's made one of the lamest excuses we've ever heard, there are some perfectly good ones out there.
The captain of the wrecked Italian cruise liner explained that he wound up abandoning the ship by accident because he tripped and fell into a life boat.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's opponents will file nearly twice as many signatures as they needed Tuesday in support of a recall election, making it nearly impossible for Walker to avoid an early vote on his term.
If you thought Captain Franscesco Schettino couldn't look any worse after abandoning the capsized Costa Concordia--think again. New transcripts between Schettino and port authorities have surfaced today, painting a cowardly picture of the captain as he tried to direct rescue efforts from a lifeboat.
Prosecutors are investigating the captain of the Costa Concordia, who reportedly went ashore on a lifeboat before all the passengers on the 950-foot liner had been rescued after it slammed a rock off of Tuscany.
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